Stephen Fry Quotes

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  You can’t just say there is a God because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Children, God

  Tags in Beautiful, Account

• Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Friendship
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  The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Failing, People

• Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• Only my tongue, sir.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized
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  An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Idea, Original

• Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books, Reading

• People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Change, Happiness

• Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Philosophy

• But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in Rio Bravo.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Time

• I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Television

• Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Christmas

  Tags in Proof

• I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Boat, Far

• I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Freedom

• Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Happy

• But happiness is no respecter of persons.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Victory

• Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actor

• I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Birth

Stephen Fry (63)

Birth:	24th August, 1957
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Author, Comedian, Director, Journalist, Playwriter, Poet, Screenwriter, Television Presenter

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